The Victorian Forest Alliance has a new monthly giving program — the VFA Forest Champions — to build a strong, sustainable base of support for our forests. 🌳🐦 Right now, every monthly donation is matched, so your support goes twice as far. ➡ www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/donate

What do Australia’s new nature laws mean for native forests? The reforms closed a loophole that stopped legal scrutiny of logging. But we need the full detail.

Even the mildest of fires can take out hollow-bearing trees, which are absolutely crucial for wildlife. Another victim of Forest Fire Management Victoria and its burn- baby-burn ethos.

NSW GOVT TO REJECT ANIMAL WELFARE RECOMMENDATIONS "Independent review calls for sweeping restructure of NSW’s greyhound racing industry but government rejects key recommendations." www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de... #AusPol #NSWPol #AnimalRights #Dogs #DogsofBsky #Greyhounds #AnimalWelfare

DISTURBING GREYHOUND INCIDENT Disturbing footage from Casino greyhound track on Tuesday is yet another reminder of how unsafe this industry is for the dogs trapped in it. MORE BELOW. #Dogs #DogsofBsky #QldPol #NSWPol #AusPol #Greyhounds #AnimalRights #AJP #AnimalWelfare

We’re joining 100+ voices calling on the EU to implement the Deforestation Regulation now. No more delays. Our forests, communities, and climate can’t wait. 🌍 📄 Read the joint statement: buff.ly/ZZBk4ZY #EUDR #Deforestation #Biodiversity

Wendy Bacon & Tracey Carpenter two of six Knitting Nannas arrested @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade last weekend in Newcastle.

Hundreds took to the water intending to be arrested at #RisingTide but police used discretion to arrest or not, and to cherry-pick which charges to lay. Investigative journalist and Knitting Nanna Wendy Bacon with her wrap of @risingtideaus.bsky.social blockade. michaelwest.com.au/rising-tide-...

Australians have a right to access government information and to understand how decisions are made on their behalf. I just signed this @australiainstitute.org.au petition calling to end government secrecy: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_governme... #FreedomOfInformation #FOI #auspol

Forestry Corporation posts another multi-million-dollar loss in native forest division echo.net.au/2025/12/fore... Forestry Corporation lost $85 million over 4 years... ‘Taxpayers are paying an exorbitant cost to subsidise private sawmillers to log native forests.’ #nswpol #EndNativeForestLogging

141 arrested including youth at Newcastle coal port blockade www.echo.net.au/2025/12/141-... #risingtide #phaseoutcoalgas

BREAKING‼️ Greenpeace have scaled and blocked a coal ship bound for Newcastle today for #RisingTide, deploying a banner with a message to Labor 👉🏼 “Phase Out Coal and Gas”. www.greenpeace.org.au/news/greenpe...

Those naughty Knitting Nannas sure are legends! #RisingTide

Oops‼️ This coal ship TURNED AWAY due to the #RisingTide disruption of the world’s biggest coal port ✊🏽💚✊🏼

Nannas standing with First Nations Tiwi and Timor Leste in their battle to protect Country (Land and Sea) to stop Gas expansion disaster. Building communities of hope at The People’s Blockade #RisingTide #KnittingNannas #SeoofNations

Jonathon Dykyj originated from Central Queensland and knows first hand the boom and bust impact on communities from their rover-reliance on coal and gas. He's now a local Newcastle parent and was one of the swimmers arrested at #RisingTide this afternoon. Thanks Jono!

Mina Bui Jones is a resident of the Hunter Valley region that is overly reliant on the boom and bust of coal prices. She was arrested this afternoon with #RisingTide, demanding a 78% tax on coal exports to help fund a just transition away from the dangerous fossil fuel economy 💚

Newcastle Port now closed to coal ships! Wish we had drone footage of 5 Nannas in a tinny breaching 100m exclusion zone in an ‘exciting back &forth with police boats’. (Observers report). No arrests. Harbour authorities closed the port to coal ships. @risingtideaus.bsky.social

"Thousands gather in Newcastle Harbour as Rising Tide flotilla blocks coal exports" #RisingTide 👇🏽 www.news.com.au/national/nsw...

Champions‼️ Thousands of protesters including Greens leader Larissa Waters have gathered for the annual climate protest/festival in world’s largest coal export port 💚👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is civil disobedience‼️ We've asked 'nicely' for decades. Disobeying institutions that abuse power to deliberately harm those less powerful is a vital tenant of a healthy democracy. There is still time to join is at #RisingTide 👇🏽 www.risingtide.org.au/pb2025

Please SIGN: 240 NGOs, Indigenous peoples and grassroots movements are uniting against the TFFF. Together we say: our forests are not for speculation, our lives are not collateral. Stand with this global alliance. #RainforestRescue #ActForRainforest rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...

Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing Ken Henry www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #epbc

The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws comes as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding Georgina Woods www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #epbc

🥳 HUGE shout-out to everyone travelling to the Blockade from outside of Newcastle! There's info on how to get there from your local hub in the Guide docs.google.com/document/d/1... see you there comrades! 🎉🌊

The Deputy Mayor of #Gloucester will be with us, among thousands - hope you’re also joining our climate defence protestival this weekend in #NewcastleNSW. www.gloucesteradvocate.com.au/story/912032...

Wilcox being brilliant again. What a woman.

Rising Tide Protestival is underway. These Nanna faces do the talkin’. (See the red line on the ship? It shows the ship is empty if visible. The load of coal is heavy, the red is underwater, the ship is full of Coal. Off to offload its Scope 3 emissions elsewhere. Not our concern, they say.)

News from the Nannas on day one of the Rising Tide Protestival knittingnannas.org/2025/11/28/r...

Citizen scientists act to prevent destruction of endangered Glider Habitat A citizen scientist has taken direct action in an effort to protect habitat critical to the endangered Greater Glider, amid growing tensions over native forest logging east of Armidale.

World’s best climate-smart farmers under threat from science cuts Australian farmers have been confirmed as the world’s leading climate-smart producers in the same week the Government moves to cut the CSIRO scientists that help them do it.

NSW Government responds to Bushfire Inquiry reforms The NSW Government has now responded to all 76 recommendations from the NSW Bushfire Inquiry, transforming the state’s ability to prepare, respond and recover when bushfire strikes.

You cant protect nature if you wont protect native forests from chain saws & bulldozers Great column by Virginia Young on Labors deeply flawed new ‘nature laws’…the ones that’s are so flawed the mining industry are desperately lobbying the Liberals to vote for them thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

The so called reforms are spin! thepoint.com.au/opinions/251... Worse the legislation completely fails to recognise how the biodiversity crisis and climate crisis amplify each other, that neither crisis can be solved unless they are solved together and that if we fail on one we will fail on both.

An utter disgrace. A Trumpian level of destruction being wrought at the CSIRO under Albo. "The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150. Four of its nine research focuses will not continue"

While this scandal relates to liquid biofuels, the same rules around accrediting and monitoring (or rather not monitoring) sustainability certification for wood #biomass, too.

The refinery and the company behind it don't exist. No evidence that the certified trader exists either. While the certificate has been suspended, the responsible certification body, Certi W Baltic, has not. Yet fuel certified as coming from the non-existen refinery was shipped to Rotterdam...

🧵The latest on #bioenergy certification, exposed by investigative reporters in Germany: www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se... . The UK's and EU's (and probably world's) biggest certifier of 'sustainable' #biofuels, ISCC certified renewable diesel from a refinery in UAE as meeting EU/UK criteria. The problem?

Thousands hit streets of Belém to call for action during crucial Cop30 summit www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Lock the Gate Alliance condemns Federal Labor’s environmental law reforms, saying they are worse than current laws, & take the country backwards on protecting environments, backwards on integrity, & backwards on community rights & interests." ✍️ Open Letter 👉 www.lockthegate.org.au/federal_envi...

BREAKING: Hundreds of Global Artists and Cultural Influencers Support Historic Indigenous Declaration Demanding Bold Action to Protect the Amazon at #COP30 #CrimateCrisis #DefendTheAmazon #AmazoniaCalling #IndigenousRights amazonwatch.org/news/2025/11...

“The government wants to drill for oil in the Amazon & build a railway. We will all face problems if this continues. I told Lula not to exploit oil in the Amazon & that we don’t want the Ferrogrão. If necessary, I’ll scold [him]. He must show respect,” Raoni stated. amazonwatch.org/news/2025/11...

For the new environment laws to work, they have to apply to forestry, and they can’t be pushed aside every time the mining and fossil fuel industries get in the Minister’s ear. The govt has to scrap the ministerial discretion clause and demonstrate real intent by protecting native forests

The VFA has launched a citizen's database on PLANNED BURNS: to lift the lid on destructive fire management conducted by FFMV. 🔥 See something? Report. Help us collect evidence on the blatant mismanagement of fire in our forests. www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/citizen_reports_planned_burns

Investigation by @stand.earth confirms Drax is still turning ancient trees from oldgrowth forests in BC into wood pellets to burn itself and to sell to others.Yet last week, the govt. signed a new subsidy contract with Drax for 2027-31. #AxeDrax #BigBadBiomass www.theguardian.com/business/202...

EPN's Biomass Action Network has released a new briefing at COP30 "Decarbonisation or dispossession? The extent of industrial scale biomass energy in Latin America and its impacts on the region"🔗 environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/deca... #bioeconomy #COP30 #LatinAmerica #biomass #bigbadbiomass

New short report by @gfc-forest.bsky.social and @environmentalpaper.bsky.social exposes the impacts of large-scale #biomass energy, mostly for use in industry, on communities and ecosystems: globalforestcoalition.org/decarbonisat...

The EU is reviewing the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to ban “conversion therapy” across Europe. The next few months are critical – let’s make sure they act. I’ve signed to keep up the pressure. Join me 👉 a.allout.org/s/PEZER/ #LGBTQI

Biomass Action Network Sounds Alarm on Bioeconomy False Solutions in Belem 4X Pledge at Leaders Summit Ahead of COP30, Issues Open Letter to Parties 👉 Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/11/biom...